{{short description|American cryptographer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{other uses}} '''Melissa Erin Chase''' is an American cryptographer known for her research on attribute-based encryption, digital credentials, and information privacy. She works at Microsoft Research.{{r|ms}}
==Education== Chase graduated in 2003 from Harvey Mudd College, with a senior thesis in mathematics about the shortest path problem, advised by Ran Libeskind-Hadas.{{r|mudd}} She earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with Anna Lysyanskaya as her doctoral advisor.{{r|ms}}
==Contributions== At Microsoft, Chase is one of the developers of Picnic, a digital signature scheme that Microsoft has submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization competition.{{r|picnic|nist}} Chase spoke about the project as an invited speaker at Real World Crypto 2018 in Zürich.{{r|rwc}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=ms>{{citation|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/melissac/|title=Melissa Chase|publisher=Microsoft Research|accessdate=2018-11-10}}</ref>
<ref name=mudd>{{citation|url=https://www.math.hmc.edu/seniorthesis/archives/2003/mchase/|title=Melissa Chase, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics 2003|work=Senior Thesis archives|publisher=Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department|accessdate=2018-11-10}}</ref>
<ref name=nist>{{citation|url=https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/round-1-submissions|title=Round 1 Submissions|work=Post-Quantum Cryptography|date=3 January 2017 |publisher=National Institute of Standards and Technology|accessdate=2018-11-10}}</ref>
<ref name=picnic>{{citation|url=https://microsoft.github.io/Picnic/|title=Picnic: A Family of Post-Quantum Secure Digital Signature Algorithms|publisher=Microsoft Research|accessdate=2018-11-10}}</ref>
<ref name=rwc>{{citation|url=https://rwc.iacr.org/2018/index.html|title=Real World Crypto 2018|accessdate=2018-11-10}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== *{{Google Scholar id|h_tNp1YAAAAJ}}
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